CHAPTER VII

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=Incident=

Many well-told and interesting incidents are found in the correspondence of the letter-writers whose works are indicated below.

_The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson_, 2 vols. (Scribners); _The Letters of Thomas Gray_, 2 vols. (Bohn); _Cowper's Letters_, edited by E. V. Lucas (W. C.); _Lady Montagu's Letters_ (E. L.); _Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle_, by J. A. Froude, 2 vols. (Scribners); _Letters of Charles Lamb_, 2 vols. (E. L.); _Letters of Mme. de Sévigné_ (In French--Paris, 1844); _Life and Letters of George Eliot_, by J. W. Cross, 2 vols. (Crowell); _Matthew Arnold's Letters_, collected by George W. E. Russell (Macmillan); _Darwin's Life and Letters_, 2 vols. (Appleton); _Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning_, with notes by R. Barrett Browning and F. G. Kenyon, 2 vols.

=Anecdote=

Spence's _Anecdotes_: a selection (Scott Library); _Johnsoniana_, edited by J. Wilson Croker (Philadelphia, 1842); _The Percy Anecdotes_, by Reuben and Sholte Percy (Warne: London); _The Jest Book_, by Mark Lemon (Cambridge, 1865); _Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson_, by Hester Lynch Poizzi (C. N. L. No. 106); _Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott_, by James Hogg (Harpers, 1834).

=Eye-Witness Account=

Eye-witness accounts may be found in autobiographies, memoirs, letters, travel sketches, diaries and journals, and some true relations. (See bibliography of these types.)

=Tale of Actual Adventure=

J. Burroughs's _Camping and Tramping with President Roosevelt_ (Houghton); H. W. G. Hyrst's _Adventures in the Great Deserts_; Hakluyt's _Voyagers' Tales_ (C. N. L., No. 23); _Library of Universal Adventure by Sea and Land_, including the original narratives and authentic stories of personal prowess and peril in all waters and regions of the globe from the year 79 A. D. to the year 1888 A. D., compiled and edited by William Dean Howells and Thomas Sergeant Perry (Harper, 1893).

=The Traveler's Sketch=

Mandeville's _Voyages and Travels_ (C. N. L.); Marco Polo's _Voyages and Travels_ (Bohn); Captain Cook's _Voyages of Discovery_ (E. L.); _Travels of Mungo Park_ (E. L.); Hakluyt's _Voyages_, 8 vols. (E. L.); Darwin's _Voyage of the Beagle_ (E. L.); Fielding's _Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon_ (W. C.); Smollett's _Travels through France and Italy_ (W. C.); Borrow's _Bible in Spain_ (E. L.) and _Wild Wales_ (E. L.); Bayard Taylor: _Library of Travel_, 6 vols.; W. D. Howells's _Italian Journeys and London Films_; Henry James's _Little Tour in France_; F. Hopkinson Smith's _White Umbrella in Mexico_; H. M. Stanley's _In Darkest Africa_ and _How I Found Livingstone_; Lafcadio Hearn's _Gleanings in Buddha-fields_ and _Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan_; W. E. Curtis's _Between the Andes and the Ocean_ and _Egypt, Burma, and British Malaysia_. For Western travel and adventure in America between 1748 and 1846, see _Early Western Travels_, 32 vols. (A. H. Clark & Co. Cleveland, 1904). A tour through the island of Luzon in 1800 is charmingly recorded by Joaquin Martinez y Zuñiga in his _Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas_, ed. by W. E. Retana (Madrid). An English translation under the title _An Historical View of the Philippine Islands_ was issued at London in 2 vols. 1814 (printed for J. Asperne). A breezy artist-sketch, written with the purpose only to please and to satirize, is Heine's _Die Harzreise_ (American Book Co.).

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